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Recent Examples of clop
Noun
The clop of the horse's hooves is a kind of muted drumroll.—Scott Simon, NPR, 19 July 2025 Grenadiers and Scots guards marched in two lines, following the rhythmic clop of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.—Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022 From the stillness in the Cathedral Spires to the hypnotic clop of heavy bison hooves, Custer State Park never disappoints.—Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021 Horses clip-clop languidly across Union Avenue to reach the racetrack, stopping traffic and stealing the hearts of horse enthusiasts who admire their grace and power.—New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021 Horses carrying Mexican American cowboys known as charros clip-clop along a network of park trails.—Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021 Combining two familiar genres — hip-hop meets clip-clop — creates a completely fresh and astonishingly effective synthesis.—Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021
The tiny Greek island, only 90 minutes by ferry from Athens, has been renowned for generations as a dreamy, car-free outpost where the only traffic sound is the clip-clop of donkey hooves and the most stressful decision is which white wine to choose with dinner.
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Tony Perrottet,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
There’s something special about salty ocean breezes paired with the clip-clop of horse hooves.
From the moment that Jerry Goldsmith’s piano tinkles caress the opening bars of his score while stars float past the frame, anyone with a soul knows that this is not your average IP cash-in.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2025
The water fountains are trickling; wind chimes tinkle and shimmer in the breeze, and the store’s seemingly endless lines of indoor and outdoor décor are available to celebrate each season and occasion.
The country twang of her Nashville origins has been replaced with sonorous synths, and in the case of Showgirl, a throwback to the retro electric guitar sound of her bestselling 2014 album 1989.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
Casaubonian in his learning and drive but without the tragic vanity, he was born in Pittsburgh in 1933 and raised in New York, inheriting from his Texan parents a pride in the Lone Star State, along with a lingering twang.
And virtually all of them had played on a ton of station identification and advertising jingles.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
18 Oct. 2025
Freebairn-Smith’s works also feature collaborations on dozens of commercial jingles for Chevron, Continental Airlines, United Airlines, Dubonnet Wine, Pacific Bell, among others.
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